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Provides online access to the text via expertconsult.com where you can perform quick searches of the complete contents, download all of the images, further your study with bonus review and self assessment questions, and follow links to PubMed abstracts for convenient consultation whwere and when you need it most.

Offers new chapters on vascular diagnosis, graft infections, aortic dissection, and visceral aneurysms for greater coverage of the field.

Includes a significant increase in endovascular treatment coverage in many of the chapters, reflecting the growing need for experience in these procedures.

Presents current data from DREAM and EVAR 1 and 2 trials.

Features a revised artwork program—including many revised illustrations and former black and white images now in color—for an enhanced visual understanding of concepts.

Includes Key Points boxes in every chapter that allow for quick reference and efficient study.

Features over 1,000 photographs, line drawings, charts and tables that make important information easy to comprehend.

Integrates clinical information with basic science making the material relevant to everyday practice.

Covers treatment and interventions from an evidence-based perspective, whenever possible.

Provides short, clinical vignettes in the same style as those found on oral exams.

Published Reviews

True to the editors' goal of developing a practical text, the diagnostic descriptions are brief and focus primarily on the appropriate use of noninvasive and invasive diagnostic tests, their interpretation, and their limitations. Almost no stone is left unturned in reviewing the various options for intervention available to the treating physician, whether endoluminal or open surgical or any combination thereof.—Annals of Vascular Surgery, International Journal of Vascular Surgery, March 2005

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